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The poisoned word: How Palestine solidarity is branded as antisemitism

Why is support for Palestine so often seen as “antisemitism”? And why so few mentions of ...  
Trump's war on international justice

When the U.S. sanctions international judges to shield Israel, power decides who is accountable ...  
Beyond reform: South Azerbaijan’s case for political agency

Decades of exclusion and environmental collapse have pushed South Azerbaijan beyond reform and ...  
Trump's Art of the Greenland Deal

Trump’s fixation on Greenland reveals how ego, deal-making bravado and hard-power geopolitics ...  
Trump’s dementia destroys time-honoured global alliances

Last week’s World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting exposed rifts between allies that are unlikely to ...  
Trump’s MAGA militia strategy and the erosion of restraint

As the midterms approach, Trump’s politics of force are reshaping both foreign policy and ...  
The death of the Coalition and a requiem for the Old Order

The latest split in Australia’s conservative Coalition is yet another signal the old, establi ...  
Trump threats against Fed chief trigger rare global response

Donald Trump’s threats against Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell have prompted an unusually ...  
Trump unbound: An assault on democracy at home and abroad

Donald Trump’s second presidency has stripped away the pretence, revealing how fragile democracy ...  
How Indonesia can rebuild trust before the next election

Gas shortages, poisoned school meals and rising distrust expose the growing gap between power and ...  
Western Sahara, Trump and the exposure of international law

By recognising Moroccan sovereignty over Western Sahara, Trump revealed how conditional interna ...  
The end of sovereign immunity: America’s new doctrine of capture

By seizing a sitting head of state, Washington has replaced international law with a doctrine of ...  
Gaza and antisemitism: What a Royal Commission can’t fix

Will the Royal Commission into Antisemitism end up with a full explanation of that social problem ...  
Festival of cowardice: The cancellation of Randa Abdel-Fattah

If the decision to remove a Palestinian author from Adelaide Writers' Week was intended to refl ...  
How Iran’s regime weaponised religion

Behind the language of morality and law, Iran’s theocracy has spent decades protecting abusers ...  
Gaza to Bondi: How appeasement shaped Albanese’s response to antisemitism

A pattern of appeasement, not moral clarity, has shaped the Albanese Government’s response to ...  
Pole-to-Pole with Donald Trump: An Australian guide to the new flat Earth

As Donald Trump redraws the world from ice cap to ice cap, Australia risks discovering that being ...  
Trump’s Venezuela abduction shatters claims of Western moral authority

By kidnapping a foreign leader, the Trump Administration has stripped the West of any credibility ...  

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